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Several thousand South Sudanese rebels have surrendered to the government and returned home from alleged rear bases in neighbouring Sudan, government and rebel officials in the south said on Friday. South Sudan has been struggling to contain insurgencies it claims have been supported by Sudan since it gained independence from its northern neighbour in 2011 under a peace deal that ended one of Africa's longest civil wars. Sudan denies the allegations.
The north declined to comment on the rebels' surrender, which follows the two countries agreeing to resume southern oil exports through the north and pledging not to support insurgencies on the other's territory. The South Sudan Liberation Army (SSLA), one of the largest rebel groups in the new country, and two other militia groups said they had accepted an amnesty offer from President Salva Kiir.
South Sudan's army said some 3,000 rebels crossed the border from Sudan where they were believed to have training bases, along with 100 vehicles, including 37 trucks mounted with machine guns and anti-aircraft guns. "Our forces have joined the peace process with the South Sudan army," SSLA spokesman Gordon Buay said. Sudan's army spokesman al-Sawarmi Khalid declined to comment, saying only that international peacekeepers monitoring the border could confirm any crossing.
Incidents in the remote border area are hard to verify. Security analysts say hundreds of people were killed in clashes between the SSLA and Southern government forces in November 2011 and March 2012 in Unity State, although the group has not been active recently. Tension has plagued ties between the two countries since their messy divorce following a peace deal in 2005 that ended more than 20 years of civil war, with deadly border clashes breaking out a year ago.

Copyright Reuters, 2013

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